Reading Response #3

Getting Ready to Read:
Fact - something that can be proven as true.
Claim - an idea that can be proven true or false.
Opinion - thoughts on a certain idea or topic
Argument - differing of thoughts on a certain idea or topic

In her article, Margaret Kantz tries to give readers a new idea about researching topics. Kantz believes that research should be a matter of treating each "fact" as a claim instead; as an idea that can be debated. Kantz believes that if a topic is treated this way, it is easier to write about. By not trusting everything you read, you are free to question ideas and broaden your writing to expand more.

Kantz's piece strongly reminded me of Stuart Greene's article in that both authors are trying to get the reader to look at ideas in a more abstract way. Much like Greene compared arguing to a conversation, Kantz gives the reader a new way to look at research, to treat it as something that might not necessarily be factual, which gives the reader more room to interpret the text as they please.

QDJ
1. Kantz maintains that facts, opinions, and arguments are fairly different. While facts and opinions can both be described as claims, arguments must be backed up.
2. Kantz thinks that students read articles as stories. She also believes that students tend to treat everything they read as facts. I believe these assumptions are very true, and did not realize how much I agreed with Kantz until I read this article and realized that I am guilty of these very things.

AEI
2. While I believe that creativity and research can go hand in hand, I don't necessarily agree with Kantz in stating that students should treat facts and opinions as claims. While her ideas on how students view articles and research do interest me, I don't believe that the way to fix this is to treat everything you read as being a claim. I believe that you should trust most of what you read, and only doubt it when you are given a logical reason to.

MM
Kantz is trying to refute the idea that all research should be trusted. She believes that most should view research as a claim rather than a fact. It is useful to understand what she says because it gives you a new way to look at how you read an article and how you treat research, so that maybe you are able to change how you think.

Thoughts:
While some of Kantz's ideas did interest me, this was very hard to read. It may help me with research in the future, but I doubt that I will take Kantz's advice on treating research as a claim, because I simply don't believe it is the best idea.